Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000
No: 28 Dated: Aug, 25 2000
THE MADHYA PRADESH REORGANISATION ACT, 2000
No.28 of 2000
An Act to provide for the reorganisation of the existing State of Madhya Pradesh and for matters connected therewith.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows :-
PART I
Preliminary
1. Short title.- This Act may be called the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000.
2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "appointed day" means the day which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint;
(b) "article" means an article of the Constitution;
(c) "assembly constituency", "council constituency" and "parliamentary constituency" have the same meanings as in the Representation of the People Act, 1950 ( 43 of 1950);
(d) "Election Commission" means the Election Commission appointed by the President under Article 324;
(e) "existing State of Madhya Pradesh" means the State of Madhya Pradesh as existing immediately before the appointed day;
(f) "law" includes any enactment, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme, notification or other instrument having, immediately before the appointed day, the force of law in the whole or in any part of the existing State of Madhya Pradesh;
(g) "notified order" means an order published in the Official Gazette' ;
(h) "population ratio" in relation to the States of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh means the ratio of 485.7 : 176.2;
(i) "sitting member" in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of the existing State of Madhya Pradesh means a person who immediately before the appointed day, is a member of that House;
(j) "successor State" in relation to the existing State of Madhya Pradesh means the State of Madhya Pradesh or Chhattisgarh;
(k) "transferred territory" means the territory which on the appointed day is transferred from the existing State of Madhya Pradesh to the State of Chhattisgarh;
(l) "treasury" includes a sub-treasury; and
(m) any reference to a district, tehsil or other territorial division of the existing State of Madhya Pradesh shall be construed as a reference to the area comprised within that territorial division on the appointed day.
PART II
Reorganisation of the State of Madhya Pradesh
3. Formation of Chhattisgarh State.- On and from the appointed day, there shall be formed a new State to be known as the State of Chhattisgarh comprising the following territories of the existing State of Madhya Pradesh, namely :-
Bastar, Bilaspur, Dantewada, Dhamtari, Durg, Janjgir-Champa, Jashpur, Kanker, Kawardha, Korba, Koria, Mahasamund, Raigarh, Raipur, Rajnandgaon and Surguja districts,
and thereupon the said territories shall cease to form part of the existing State of Madhya Pradesh.
4. State of Madhya Pradesh and territorial divisions thereof.- On and from the appointed day, the State of Madhya Pradesh shall comprise the territories of the existing State of Madhya Pradesh other than those specified in Section 3.
5. Amendment of the First Schedule to the Constitution.- On and from the appointed day, in the First Schedule to the Constitution, under the heading
"I. THE STATES",-
(a) in the paragraph relating to the territories of the State of Madhya Pradesh, after the words, brackets and figures, "the l Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh (Transfer of Territories) Act, 1959", ( 47 of 1959) the following shall be added, nameIy:- "but excluding the territories specified in Section 3 of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000";
(b) after entry 25, the following entry shall be inserted, namely:-
"26. Chhattisgarh.- The territories specified in Section 3 of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000.".
6. Saving powers of the State Government.- Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Part shall be deemed to affect the power of the Government of Madhya Pradesh or Chhattisgarh to alter, after the appointed day, the name, area or boundaries of any district or other territorial division in the State.